The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard

What came first: the typist or the keyboard?

Read this awesome article regarding the origins of QWERTY, the story of all the alternatives and get to know the facts from fiction!

U.S. Patent No. 207,559. The first appearance of the QWERTY keyboard. (image: Google patents)

LinkedLists- Most Popular StackOverflow links

The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow.

It started as an exploration of what kinds of links people shared on Stack Overflow and grew from there.

All the links are mined from the Stack Overflow data dumps (March 2013). The link descriptions are mined by crawling the web and using Duck-Duck-Go which publishes a great free website summary API.

Git - Getting Started

Git-scm - We have all seen those pages in github, where you can download the source codes of various projects, or scripts to do various things.. But what is that? What are versions, cloning, How do we contribute to a project?
What's all the hype about git and opensource..
Well you can get all your answers here.

Some features of using Git-

1. Branching and Merging
2. Small and Fast
3. Distributed
4. Data Assurance
5. Staging Area
6. Free and Open Source

Population Pyramids

Population Pyramids of the Whole World from 1950 to 2100

SAT : Getting the lowest score possible

Getting the lowest score possible

This document describes author's effort to get the lowest score possible on the SAT exam.

Its a humorous and in-depht analysis of SAT Exams, and how he took his!

Superman-strength bacteria produce 24-karat gold

Superman-strength bacteria produce 24-karat gold

At a time when the value of gold has reached an all-time high, Michigan State University researchers have discovered a bacterium's ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity is key to creating 24-karat gold.

An alternate universe

An alternate universe
Its a Technological writer's point of view who was going to buy AppleCare+ at an Apple Store, but passed the new Microsoft Store built next to it!
He went in to try the new Surface tablet, and here's the last para he wrote regarding the experience-

"it’s not for me at all. Not even for testing, experimenting, or curiosity. It feels too much like using a Windows PC, which was exactly Microsoft’s intention, and it will appeal to people who want that. But that’s a world I fled 8 years ago with no intention of returning."

Top 10 technologies of the past 45 years

Top 10 technologies of the past 45 year

The products that helped push rapid change in the IT industry over the past few decades

99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!

99 Life Hacks to make your life easier!
Awesome Pictorial way to represent simple things we can do in a particular sitiation to make it easily manageable!!

The Evolution of the Web

The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos and interactive content. What the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible.
Over time, web technologies have evolved to give web developers the ability to create new generations of useful and immersive web experiences. Today's web is a result of the ongoing efforts of an open web community that helps define these web technologies, like HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL, and ensure that they're supported in all web browsers.
The colour bands in this visualisation represent the interaction between web technologies and browsers, which brings to life the many powerful web apps that we use daily.
 The Evolution of the Web

The internet map: Websites illustrated according to traffic and user activity

Internet Map

Well, productivity, you had a good run. But unfortunately for everyone with actual stuff to do today, a fantastic time waster has appeared on the web, and it threatens to turn everyone into mindless page surfers for eternity. It's called The Internet Map, and it just might be the best tool yet for finding sites you've never even heard of.

The map is comprised of the top 350,000 websites from around the world, organized into groups based on country and genre. The more popular a site is, the larger its dot will be. As you can imagine, heavyweights like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook have some mighty large real estate on the map, but the seemingly endless smaller dots are a treat to explore. You can even search the map for a specific website, and then browse its virtual neighborhood to find other sites you may enjoy.

The map uses a pretty advanced algorithm to determine the placement of each site, and its creator — a Russian man named Ruslan Enikeev — has been working on the map as a non-commercial labor of love. You can check out the map, and even donate some cash to keep the servers up and running, at The Internet Map website.

This article was written by Mike Wehner and originally appeared on Tecca

What does your phone number spell?

Phone Spell

Type in your phone number and watch the advanced code matrix convert it into a phrase or words like one of those 1-800-MY-APPLE type numbers!!!...

Use phonespell to find mnemonic of your existing phone number, get help to pick a new phone number and to convert words back into numbers...
Just Click here! and get started...

C++ Reference

CPPReference-


A website with a complete reference for the features in the C and C++ standard libraries, i.e. a more convenient version of the C and C++ standards. Unfortunately this means that being a good educational resource is not among our objectives. It is assumed that the reader has good knowledge of C and/or C++. As a consequence, a lot of things, e.g. tutorials, comments about usage cases of one feature or another, detailed explanations of things that are implicitly clear to an experienced programmer, etc., are not included and should not be added. Basically, we try to keep things simple and clear for a programmer looking for reference of a feature he already knows.

Extract camera information from any Jpeg (Jpg) image file

Camera Summary extracts the exif data from Jpeg images. Camera Summary is basically an online exif data extractor that provides information like: camera make / model, detailed information about how the picture was taken and even the thumbnail that was embedded in the file...

Can You Run It

Can You Run It provides a One-Click solution that looks at your computer's hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product. Each of your computer's components is evaluated to see how well it meets the minimum and recommended requirements for specific products. Recommendations are made on how to update or upgrade each component which does not meet the listed requirements. Sometimes, a simple, free software download is all that is needed. Sometimes you'll find that you need a different video card to fully experience what the game has to offer.

CivilAnswers.com

The main goals of CivilAnswers is to provide their client's with a general overview, guidelines, tips, opinions, and information on what other individuals have experienced..

Simple, Powerful, Confidential, and Free!

Asking a question is Simple. Type in your Question, select the best legal Category and insert your Email address. And You’re Done!

How to enable macbook style two finger scrolling on windows laptops

After using my new Macbook Air for the last week, it’s almost painful to switch back to my PC laptop—using two finger scrolling has become second nature. Here’s how to get the same feature on (most) Windows laptops.
This technique only works for laptops using Synaptics trackpads—if your laptop is using an Alps or something else, you’re probably out of luck, since we’ve not been able to find a solution for those.
Click here to Know HOW

NeoPPT

Powerpoint presentations for advanced classes, seminars etc. for these given various topics-

• Categories

  • Agricultural
  • Astronomy
  • Biography
  • Biology
  • Business and Marketing
  • Chemistry
  • Computer Science
  • Ecology
  • Economy and Finance
  • Electronics and Communication
  • Energy and Environment
  • Geology
  • Health and Safety
  • Information Technology
  • Law
  • Management
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Programming
  • Psychology
  • Reference
  • Society
  • Statistic

File Research Center - Find out what's really running on your PC!

The File Research Center provides a free scanning service to identify what is running on your computer. They also provide free information about safe and unsafe files,processes, services, spyware, adware, malware, trojans, and other programs that may be on your computer. Click here to scan your computer and see what's running.

What is a Tracking Cookie?

Know what is TRACKING COOKIE in real.....which u get while running antispywares